A talented but troubled Edo Period swordsman, Kanemi Sanzaemon. Three years earlier, Kanemi killed a woman, Renko, the corrupt mistress of the powerful daimyo Tabu Ukyou. Unexpectedly, Kanemi received a lenient sentence for his crime and is allowed to return to his clan after only one year of imprisonment. Following his return, Kanemi is faced with the death of his wife, Mutsue. Thereafter, Kanemi lives with and cares for his wife's niece, Satoo, who has secret affections for Kanemi and expresses them by helping change his bleak outlook on life. Meanwhile, Kanemi's develops his unique "bird-catching" sword technique which he will soon put to test in battle for the first time against the fearsome swordsman, Hayatonosho Obiya.

In this film, Hibari plays a dual role as brother and sister. The story involves a journey to Hanaga...

When master swordsman Mikogami Genshiro of the Ono fencing school returns to find that his ailing se...

A remake of High Noon (1952) as a Japanese jidai-geki sword-fighting movie.

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their sponso...

Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and...

Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are ...

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

Late 18th-century Joseon dynasty. The King is beleaguered and surrounded by traitors of the ruling e...

The Color Print of Edo is a 1939 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment dire...

The third work in the "Not in Textbooks!" series, which is a live-action movie of a popular love com...

The fourth in a school romantic comedy that features a popular comic by Kazuto Okada starring Ayaka ...

When the cast and crew of a paranormal TV reality program decide to shoot in the house of the origin...

Marc Schrader, a rookie cop caught red-handed with drugs in a police raid of an illegal rave, joins ...

An independent group of researchers called the Godzilla Prediction Network (GPN) actively track Godz...

A warrior-in-training and his bumbling friends go in pursuit of a stolen sword.

Wishing to find peace, Zatoichi travels to his old village but only finds trouble when he ends up in...

After arriving in the town of Shimonita, Ichi finds that a price has been put on his head by a local...

In Kyoto, a samurai named Boredom Otoko, Saotome Mondonosuke , appears and helps a woman being chase...